Monthly Archives: June 2007

In a June 19, 2007 article in the New York Law Journal (subscription required), and a June 27, 2007 article appearing on www.law.com, K&L Gates partner Kelly D. Talcott writes: A recent e-discovery decision from the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California provides an opportunity to reflect a bit on the permanence of storage media. … Continue Reading

Scotts Co. LLC v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., 2007 WL 1723509 (S.D. Ohio June 12, 2007) In this case, plaintiff asked the court to enter a discovery order to "ensure the production of all electronically stored information in an acceptable format as required by law and the most recent amendments to the Federal Rules of… Continue Reading

By Jesse Seyfer from The Recorder: A federal magistrate’s order that stops a Web site from routinely tossing relevant data could, if replicated, carry broad e-discovery implications. Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Chooljian’s May 29 order requires TorrentSpy to turn over customer data only ephemerally kept in its computers’ random access memory, or RAM. It could result… Continue Reading

Disability Rights Council of Greater Wash. v. Wash. Metro. Area Transit Auth., 2007 WL 1585452 (D.D.C. June 1, 2007) In this case, disabled plaintiffs claimed that WMATA failed to provide adequate paratransit services through the MetroAccess program and that the service provided was materially inferior to the services available to people without disabilities. Discovery was… Continue Reading

Calyon v. Mizuho Secs. USA Inc., 2007 WL 1468889 (S.D.N.Y. May 18, 2007) This case involved claims against former employees (the “Individual Defendants”) and their new employer for the misappropriation of confidential business information. According to Calyon, the Individual Defendants used email and small, hand-held computer storage devices to remove vast quantities of Calyon’s business… Continue Reading

Effective June 4, 2007, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio has incorporated a Default Standard for Discovery of Electronically Stored Information ("E-Discovery") as Appendix K to its Local Civil Rules. Although the Court expects parties to cooperatively reach agreement on how to conduct e-discovery, in the event that such agreement has… Continue Reading

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